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Closes on December 15th!
Values and Social Science
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CES Holds Second Dissertation Workshop
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Engaged Scholars at Work
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Application Portal Open
Closes on December 15th!
About the Center
We’re social scientists who believe that the United States should be a more democratic, egalitarian, sustainable society.
Dissertation Fellowships
We created our dissertation fellowships to encourage engaged scholarship and the progress it supports.
Engaged Scholarship
Engaged scholarship advances progressive values. It’s politically engaged research that meets the highest academic standards.
The Social Sciences are alive everywhere in our world.
Our goal is to offer a progressive view of how scholarship is shaping the critical cultural debates and policy decisions that will determine the future of American society.
Values and Social Science
Robert Dunn’s argument on the impossibility and undesirability of “value free” social science.
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CES Holds Second Dissertation Workshop
On a recent August weekend, we held the second CES dissertation workshop
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Engaged Scholars at Work
Read the op-ed by Idit Fast, a 2018-2019 CES Fellow and Ph.D. student in Sociology at Rutgers University.
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